Bummer99

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Bummer99

Bummer99

@hdt99

former Apple & SpaceX eng. Semi-retired & working as a consultant part time consultant. Just for me to find articles...sports/politics/business/tech stuff.

San Diego Katılım Mayıs 2009
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The New York Times
The New York Times@nytimes·
Elon Musk has used SpaceX as a kind of piggy bank over the last two decades, turning to the company as a financial tool to get loans and bolster his struggling companies, according to an examination by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4w8dInZ
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TD Nash
TD Nash@td_nash·
At their best, who do YOU think was better?🧐
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Bummer99@hdt99·
@td_nash No TO. He drop too many passes. Probably Fitzgerald. Dude never dropped anything.
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TD Nash@td_nash·
On 4th and goal from the 4 yard line with 5 seconds to go, who would you throw to for the winning touchdown?🧐
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BARRYLONGLiiVE
BARRYLONGLiiVE@barrylongii·
Who was the best home run hitter when you first started watching MLB?
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HAWK@HawkEmDownChris·
Barry Bonds isn’t available, who’s your favorite MLB player of all time?
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Trung Phan@TrungTPhan·
it's rare, but LinkedIn delivers alpha every now and then
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Lou
Lou@_iamlougotti·
Who won the NBA MVP the year you graduated high school? For me it was LeBron
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Bummer99@hdt99·
@FBGreatMoments Helluva player. Had the misfortune of playing in the same era as Rice, but man he was good.
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Football’s Greatest Moments
Football’s Greatest Moments@FBGreatMoments·
Sterling Sharpe put up the kind of numbers most wide receivers only dream about in just six seasons.
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Eric Swalwell
Eric Swalwell@ericswalwell·
After all the whataboutism & rationalization & partisanship, it comes down to this: You can vote for a sexual predator, or not vote for a sexual predator. #ALSenate
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
@D9vidson

a moving man will meet his luck 🥀

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Justin🦩Boldaji
Justin🦩Boldaji@justinboldaji·
Telling everyone how impressive my first gay bareback orgy was
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California Post
California Post@californiapost·
Trump blasts LA homeless agency's 'abysmal record' in plan to slash nearly $400M in federal funds trib.al/VpcZZXL
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Football’s Greatest Moments
Football’s Greatest Moments@FBGreatMoments·
Randy Moss vs. Terrell Owens in career stats. Two of the all-time greats at their position.
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Andrew Anderson@uscfan981·
Is Aikman the most overrated QB ever?
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@FBGreatMoments One of the all time great drafts. So many other greats besides these guys.
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Bummer99@hdt99·
@Newsforce The speed of dark is faster than the speed of light.
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NewsForce
NewsForce@Newsforce·
TURNS OUT, DARKNESS IS FASTER THAN LIGHT Scientists filmed dark spots inside a light wave seeming to move faster than light for the first time. These spots are not objects, energy, or information, so Einstein is still safe. The effect showed up inside a crystal that slows light way down and makes the dark patterns shift insanely fast. It is a weird, real physics result that sounds impossible and is not.
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